Identifying the muse at table 12
It is dinner time and the place is packed, mostly with tourists I would guess, drawn in by the sign at the entrance proclaiming “Birthplace of Harry Potter.”
Accomplished well before midnight
Writing live from a Panera Bread in Aurora on the 31st day of March, it’s Lisa Marlin. This is my last chance to get a fourth post in before the stroke of midnight — a March challenge from two other creative sorts. That’s seven hours away, but...
Throwaway notes, forever hugs
…the napkin note is not forbidden. It has long been a secret passage into my children’s hearts.
Why writers should live in messy houses
…between paragraphs, I am changing out loads of laundry, taking the dog for a walk and making a shopping list…
First draft and second guesses
That last sentence took me an hour and 23 minutes to write and rewrite. Will I keep it? Maybe. Maybe not. Noted in margin: fix this.
The End = Edit
“I could see the end, but I couldn’t force them [my characters] there. They had to work it out. And, finally, they did.”